Libraries, like our schools, have diminishing numbers of users; due mainly to Disruptive Technology and the growing number of Home / Personal computers, lap tops, and digital assistants, not to mention a mind numbing amount of software that puts nearly all the recorded history of mankind at our fingertips with just a few searches and a download that take a fraction of the time it would take to go to the library and check out books and return them.

At one time not long ago I was a big fan of the Library; until they turned it into the local baby sitting service for latch key kids after school.

It had the promise of being the cutting edge of adult continued life long learning and advanced technical studies; but the priority whent to the kids to play games, and chat across the room on and between friend elsewhere.  The business section almost disappeared, the quite is gone long ago, and more and more I just don't feel welcome there.  I feel out of place, and I can honestly say getting my own personal computer is one of the best things I could have done in the past seven years.

With budget cuts as they are and the real need to downsize with a dwindling population?  The area Libraries will like the rest of us have to make the hard choices.  Or like the TV tubes, they will be replaced by the digital revolution as our State, County and City struggle to drag us into the 21st Century.  The Library must change to meet the current abilities of the Population to support what will be left to support.

Randall L. Jacobsen Sr.

Proprietor

Sow N Sews Custom Sewing N Repairs

and Army Navy Surplus Of Muncie

and Chaplain, M.O.R.E. Ministries, American Legion Post19